County Happenings in Alton Notes and Couples
Alton society and business notes reveal visits and travels of residents, marriages and legal actions, transfers, and a string of local and surrounding area movements. Read of Mae Rock's St Louis visit, a 100 year old Mrs Hammond's death, a St Louis wedding attendance, Curtis Hayes' transfer, a quiet marriage in St Louis, and an arrest for obscene mail letters in Springfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Rock
St. Louis
Alton
A. H. Kelso
Walshville
Wm. Mize
Robert
Piasa
Tom McNally
Coal
John Smith
Rossland
B. C
Wm. Able
Granite City
John Edwards
Geo. Hamilton
Minn
Edgar Davis
Hewitt-Drury
Lydia Hammond
Cleveland McCarty
Stanard
Elizabeth Hartman
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Lawrence Hartman
United States
E. M. Eaton
Marine
Springfield
Misa C. Anderson
Notable incidents in Upper Alton and area
Reports detail a Brighton case with a suspect refusing for an arrest, a police shooting injuring an unknown man later captured on the riverfront, and the suspect remaining jailed. Master Harry Reynolds, 16, was killed by a Burlington train near State street as the family mourns his loss. April 9 notes guests, illnesses, births, and social events. faculty and students attend lectures and new enrollments at Shurtleff College and Western Military Academy. A wedding, a professor’s death from heart disease at 66, and ongoing community activities conclude the record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Springfield
Henry Spad
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Harry Reynolds
Burlington
Harry
State Street
Rev. Mc_Kinne
Elvina Sewell
Chenute
Kan
M. E. Kellam
E. A. Dodson
East End
S. A. McKay
Baptist Church
E. A. Stone
West Brown Street
H. H. Tilbe
Mabel Powell
Cairo
Fred Bayer
St. Charles
Joseph Bailey
Rev. E. Payne
Staunton
Carolyn Wempen
South Manning Street
Chas. Swain
Armour Packing House
S. A. Moffet
Carlinville
Shurtleff College
Wm. Wightman
Park Ave
Anna
Ernst Kroeger
St. Louis
W. D. Armstrong
Shurtleff School of Music
J. F. McMahon
Boston
Jas. McMahon
Bishop Thoburn
Alton
James Osborn
Ewing
Ill
Ewing College
Western Military Acad_ emy
Messrs. Kidwell
Memphis, Tenn
Langendorf
Chicago
Kohn
G. K. Taniguchi
W. Waggoner
Upper Alton
Stevens
Webster Grocery
Miss Cooper
T. B. Cooper
A. A. Kendrick
Divinity School
College Ave
Kendrick
New York
West
Shurtleff
Local notices from Edwardsville and area
Shurtleff College adjourns. no bells rung since death. April 9, Henry Stallings visited Edwardsville on business. Several residents and visitors, including McKittrick and Stahl from Binney and Mrs C E Harnsberger, were seen in town. Funeral of J B McMichael, age 87, held at his son’s residence with burial by the Odd Fellows. Barbara Pearce dies at 84. services at Harmonie Halls. A Kickapoo Medicine Company exhibit is announced. Deaths: Alfred Carter and Joseph Petry. Funeral details follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shurtleff College
Henry Stallings
Edwardsville
James McKittrickt
Dan Stahl
Binney
C. E. Harnsberger
Charles H. Pahlmann
Marine
Fred Whaling
August Groas
Orendorf
Odd Fellows
Mias Agnes McMichael
Madison
Todd Crossman
Ed Stoeckly
Fred Dauderman
Theodore Johnson
Jacob Gehrig
St. Louis
F. Meyers and Son
Pocahontas
W. H. Stallings
J.B. McMichael
A. E. McMichael
Louis Kientz, Jr
M.D
2. Tibbetts
Highland
Nora Harris
Mary McMichael
The
Baptist Church
C. H. Solfsberg
Nokomis
Lillie Miller
Granite City
Henry Pearce
Worden
J. P. Pearce
Belle Mumme
P. S. Wiedman
Thos. McCune
John Glass
George Burnap
John Childs
F. J. Ammann
Barbara Pearce
W. W. Pearce
Lucinda Warderman
Butler, Mo
Wm. W. Pearce
Jos. B. Pearce
Alhambra
Harmonie
Oscar Appel
Dan Widicus
East St. Louis
John Black
Walter Sackett
Henry Erhardt
John Deimling
George
John Liebler
Troy
Charles Dressel
Collinaville
Joseph
Lizie Wiegand
Court of Honor Lodge
Wm. Smith
Kickapoo
Charless M. Null
Irene
New Paris
Ohio
Dan’ Widicus
Rufus Pike
L. W. Adler
G. Hochuli
Frank Pike
Alfred Carter
Dugger
Adam Petry
Wedding and local notices from Edwardsville area
The report covers a Catholic cemetery funeral in Highland PM OAK with attendees listed by family name and residence, plus local visits and remarks on a Mayfield wedding at St Boniface in Edwardsville with attendants named. It notes Henry Taake repainting a residence, Gies aking-Rucker wedding attendance in Troy, fruit tree purchase in Alton, and a Ballard's Horehound Syrup advertisement with price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Troy
H. H. Wollbrinck
St Louis
H. FB. Dankenbrink
Casper Mick
Alton
Mary
Theresa Gindler
Blackjack
Henry Polsworth
Julius
Oklahoma
Susan Bast
Herman Schramm
St. Boniface Church
Edwardsville
Father Metzler
Katie
Lena Bast
Joseph
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Gome
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Bollman
Dpper Alton
ST. Jacob
Rudolph Baer
Nicholas Michael
Gottfried Buehlmann
A. Pflingbeil
Herton Hoell
E.C. Willi
Louis Wasem
John Hochuli
Walter Adler
W. H. Flacher
Mies Lizzie Ledermann
A. Tschudy
Mary A. Vitet
Newcastle
Calo
Ballard
S. Kingston
Nottingham
Cs Es
West Main
A. Heddergott
West Clay Street
Kinloch
Theo
Guennewig Main and Market Sts
Troy, Iinois
Billiard Hall
W.F. Peter
F. W. Zanders
Market St Pélephone No. 17
L. E. Rawson
Rex
H. GC. Gerfen
Sawyer
Market Street